Industry NewsSubmissions Now Open for O'Neill's 2020 National Music Theater ConferenceThe Eugene O’Neill Theater Center is accepting submissions through November 1.
By
Emily Selleck
October 22, 2019
Eugene O'Neill Theater Center 2016 Summer Gala
Isaak Berliner
The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center is now accepting submissions for its 2020 National Music Theater Conference. Writers can submit new musicals through the the Open Submissions process through November 1.
Selected writers will receive a two week residency during June or July 2020 at the Waterford, Connecticut, venue with a stipend, housing, meals, and transportation to support an intensive rehearsal process and four script-in-hand public readings with a professional cast and creative team.
Since its inception in 1978, the National Music Theater Conference has developed over 145 works including Kristen Anderson-Lopez’s In Transit, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights, and Avenue Q by Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx, and Jeff Whitty.
The 2020 season will be the third under the direction of Artistic Director Alexander Gemignani, who says he is looking for works that challenge and inspire that are written by diverse theatermakers.
“I encourage writers with every level of experience to apply; seasoned pros as well as those who have never applied to NMTC or elsewhere. Our readers represent a vast array of artists and administrators who are hungry to be a part of the next generation of groundbreaking musicals developed at the O’Neill,” he says.
Photos from the O’Neill Theater Center’s One-Night-Only 2016 Summer Gala Concert
Photos from the O’Neill Theater Center’s One-Night-Only 2016 Summer Gala Concert
Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez were honored by the O’Neill with a concert featuring songs from their collective body of work.
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Eugene O'Neill Theater Center 2016 Summer Gala
Isaak Berliner
O’Neill Executive Director Preston Whiteway hosts the O’Neill Summer Gala honoring composers Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez.
Patti Murin, Katie Lopez, and Annie Lopez perform “Do You Want to Build a Snowman” from Frozen at the 2016 O’Neill Summer Gala
Andrew Rannells performs I BELIEVE from THE BOOK OF MORMON at the 2016 O'Neill Summer Gala.
Original AVENUE Q cast members Jennifer Barnhart and Rick Lyons perform at the 2016 O’Neill Summer Gala. (C)
Playwright Stephen Karam talks about getting his start as an intern at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
Andrew Rannells, Rick Lyon and Daniel Plimpton perform an medley of songs, arranged especially for the 2016 O’Neill Gala by Stephen Oremus.
Besty Wolfe sings LET IT GO from FROZEN at the 2016 O'Neill Summer Gala.
Kristen Anderson-Lopez reacts to performances in her honor at the 2016 Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Summer Gala.
Composer Robert Lopez Performs at the 2016 O'Neill Summer Gala.
Composer Kristen Anderson-Lopez Performs at the 2016 O'Neill Summer Gala.
O'Neill Executive Director Preston Whiteway outide of the newly-named Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez studio at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.
Patti Murin, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, and Betsy Wolfe enjoy the 2016 O’Neill Summer Gala.
James Allen Ford, Kristen Anderson Lopez, Sara Wordsworth and Russ Kaplan.
James Allen Ford, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Sara Wordsworth and Russ Kaplan, sing in the O’Neill Pub, following a reading of their a capella musical IN TRANSIT in 2008.
A. Vincent Scarano
Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Rose Barn Theater
Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez applaud following the final reading of In Transit at the O’Neill in 2008.
The 2002 O’Neill National Music Theater Conference cast of Avenue Q
Stephen Oremus, Robert Lopez, Jason Moore and Jeff Marx work on Avenue Q at the O’Neill in 2002
Kate Reinders hosted the in-person and live-streamed ceremony celebrating high school musical theatre excellence at Broadway’s Minskoff Theatre June 27.
Patina Miller, Brian d'Arcy James, Phillipa Soo, Joshua Henry, Sara Bareilles, and more star in the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical beginning June 28.